The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-16
A QUEER STORY OF WIVES,
WHO REsEMBLEO EACH OTHER
SO CLOSELY


NEW IOhkJ JhuuhIy 1o'-Ahoio no
very few who were residents o.
Twelfth street, near Sixth avenue,
hat will not remember two beauiiiu
girls who lived in that vicinity, ab1u
", I've wears ago. named rsspt c.ively
Annie and Hettie Smi b, and both
we're as pretty as picture. Tho girls
kept good deal of company, aud were
murh eought STEER. Annie was Is
and Hetty was IL, and, though not 30,
W re- known ar The Twins" from
their remarkable resemblance. The
drefs d alike, tn ked alike, and only
when they wers together could they
be fairly rec & lied apart, and then,
PRINCIPAL v, 10y two thing, one OF
shich W ~ that Ainie was very Sigh
ly he taller aud had Little mole on
ner chin, the latter OF which was al
ways langhiDgly looked oD as the
landmark when all ese failed. La
due line they bGth married, Annie the
MAZE of a Liverpool liner AID Hety
CLERK IN ra road otfise
both fine 10 king, ut!7manly men
ard men on the road 20 pr, sperlIy.
sltrougn there were penty who d
clar, d a. the time that cone how, il
marriages are made in heaven, he eu-
perintendent, whe h 1t b. st. p ter,
or any other mar, wa ut on his oc
cesiou, for Auri- uugIt to have mar
ried the ra lrosd man and He ty the
eeau an. Howevr, lhey seemed 10
get along We y vel, and after years
resid nc. in this ely they separstst,
An lie going t. NV o leans with her
husband, who hal sn offer t. com-
mand hie ship trading 10 China.
She went with HIM fT al voy
ayes, and then in cons quenc OF d g.
green nts she Tsmained behind AID
established home il Oh 'rtres street,
while he departed n his long trips Of
almost yea. He'Iy remained in
Nav York, and her husband pres
pered-in ( c., has almost grown Iich
but in her nous hold 10 the same
gauut skelet n. She could not agree
with er husband. Tuere vera bick-
erinss a. all times, almost blows, unt
Fl t,y threatened to leave him, sn 81 d
that he rather seemed 10 look upon a.
d sirab e. There were no chiidry q
from either ma ri g., AID that per-
hays has a sisted in tue want If ha--
mony; buf, anyhow, things went on
in that way, vory unhapoily, until
about two ezra ago, when one morn
ing at breakfast Mrs Hetty said short
ly to her husband: "Aunie writes
me to say thai her husband has gone
away on one of his trips and expects
to be gone almost ear, and tina, she
ia very lonely. she Gays she cnnot
zee why l cannot CONS down the Q
A. d stay moth or two with her."
Nor can l" responded tbs husband,
Frightening up at tn thought of re
Stunning. for sho I period, his bach j.
lor days, 81 think the trip wo1d do
YOU gooA I'D perhaps make you hap.
py. 1 can at I'd o give you S50) 10
90 with, aRi You shall not want while
YOU are there" Tuis tied it very
soon. Ann e was teleg aphed to and
re- ponded in a d3ligh ful message.
Hetty lett, and wrote DscH about how
lovely everything was, how much
more beautiful Annie had grown a.
she matured, and, ia fact, 30 happy
was she that the visit stretched out
from month to month, aud ther
Hstty anou cad her inten
lion OF Ginning h1me, al
Annie's husband might be looked fo
any day. 1t cannot be expected tf a
Hettie's husband moped in solitUd,
while she wa & ne, Hs did not. II,
went continually into society, and /
had a good eff ct on him. Every bod.
said he had grown younger I'D hsnd
somer, and even his wife admit 'e'
that he had wonderfully improve
and was elt gsnIlv dressed, something
Of which he mad been very careless
while he looked upon her wi h ad
miration, and declared that lie coul,
not believe Que year or less OF South
ern climate CO uld so improve her. Sh
had lost all her haggard and careworl
look, she was neater in dress, and ha
80 improv, d in voice a manner a
tn be hardly the same person. Thos
who have been familiar with Hetty'
household say that it is impossible I
realize the change. Thrift and goo
humor have taken the place of care
lsssness and quarrelinR, and bouU {
ing baby boy of two months d
there, making the happlest father i
the would.
: Letters have come from New o.
lesus declaIiGg thai the G. ange in th
Captain nee his return from Chin
was msrve Gus. He was at home 81
m nthe, when he used to think on
/ too long, and had departed, king Ii
wife with him Simply because h
would not leave her behind. Thos
who have been 10 New o cleans an
seen them say thst II ever there was
: uple in love with each other that
!. the couole. Bat there is always a
z old grump N the case somewhere, an
d this one IL an old sea captain who hf
: known Annie aud Hetty since he
Q were children, and who was captain {
/ the ship of which Annle's husbau
9 was mate, aud introduced him to he
g Ha wanted to marry the mother OF tn
d girls, a widow, but she would not hav
i MIN. This is what the Old hunks say
: to the reporter: You cau't to
. me, sir! I've known them gale frol
i babies, an I've known Charey"-
d that's Annie's husbsnd-"since /
was boy, an them gals is chang
,, Inns, | saw A. ME and Charity
a year ego IN N'orleans, an Annie W,
e Hetty, sir, every time, an l amt SUI
0 Charley didn't know it, even il he di
like it, an now / see Hetty eve
u week or 80, an Hetty's Annie, or II
8 a catfish. Mebbe her husband don
o know it, an mebbe he's right, for he
Q got the finest baby an the incest wi
g in New York, though l do think Il
+ others the puitiest in N'0rlean
They're ch angelin's, sir, an I'm NJ
;" the only one in New York that know
d. it,